IF IT IS NEWS ABOUT
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win H. Lennette and F. L. Horsfall, has proved so snccessful on animals
that it is now being tested out on humans. The new discovery is an
inti-flu vaccine, developed at the University of Chicago. Photo shows
Chloe Roth, sophomore, receiving an injection from nurse Martha Cooley.
Shipment Made For
British War Relief
Check Also Sent For $45.50
Representing Contributions
and Receipts From Emb
lem Sales.
Shipment of one large box of
winter clothing, and of another
consisting of 25 pairs of shoes,
from the Roxboro headquarters
of the British War Relief society,
in the Kirby building, was an
nounced 4eday by-Mra..S> BLEnrA.
chairman, who fifed a formal re
port of the first week’s work with
New York offices of the society.
Also sent was a check totaling
$45.50, representing contribu
tions, unsolicited memberships
and receipts from emblem sales.
Plans are being formulated by
Robert Edgar Long, Roxboro at
torney, who is vice chairman, for
a membership campaign expected
to begin -within the week.
Within the next few days, said
said Mrs. Ford, we shall ship over
100 flannel undergarments for
children made by the NYA un
der supervision of Mrs. Beth
Brewer Pridgen from material
donated to the society.
Speaking on behalf of the ex
cutive committee, composed of
the secretary, Mrs. L. Sanders Mc-
Whorter, the treasurer, James
Brooks, and the vice chairman
and chairman, Mrs. Ford today
expressed its appreciation for co
operation from all private con
tributors and from a number of
merchants, including Henry’s the
Roxboro Shoe Store and Woody,
Long and Howard, die last
named of which has given
many garments which will be
included in the second shipment.
The other firms mentioned gave
part of the clothing, and the shoes,
previously mentioned.
Officials of the local society,
organized weeks ago although
service has been interrupted by
the influenza epidemic, are par
ticularly interested in the “War
Impressions” addresses to be giv
en Monday night at 8 o’clock at
the Person county court house,
this city, although no solicitation
of funs for work of the society
will be made at that time. Speak
ers will include: Jacques Hardre,
a French soldier, Admiral Percy
Foote, retired, and James Clark,
of the society, all of Chapel Hill.
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BAPTIST CLASSES
According to announcement
made yesterday the monthly
meet of the Kinozelian class
of Roxboro First Baptist church
has been postponed indefinitely.
Th* Philathian class will, how
ever, meet in the ladies parlor
of the education building Mon
day night at 7:30 o’clock.
IfreotilMitnes
PUBLISHED EVERY SUNDAY & THURSDAY
CHURCHES WILL
HAVE REGULAR
SERVICESTODAY
Rev. W. C. Martin Retains
To Pulpit Alter Hlness
With Influenza.
Jjtev. W. C. Martin, pastor of
Edgar Long Memorial church,
who has recovered from an ill
ness with influenza, will occupy
his pulpit Sunday maming at the
11 o’clock service and will con
duct the usual first of the month
communion service. Sunday
school will also be held at the usu
al hour, but the afternoon vesper
service will be omitted.
The Rev. Mr. Martin was ill
last Sunday and no church ser
vices were held at the church on
that day. Mrs. Martin, his wile,
who has also been ill is improv
ing.
Regular church school and
morning services will be held at
Roxboro Presbyterian church, of
wrich the Rev. J. M. Walker is
pastor, and at St Mark’s Episco
pal church, by the deacon in
charge, Rev. Rufus J. Womble.
Morning and evening services
with preaching by * the pastor,
Rev. W. F. West will also be held
at Roxboro First Baptist church.
MCINTOSH WILL
SPEAK TUESDAY
High School Parent-Teach
er Association Will Hear
Him. Central School Asso
ciation Meets.
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Speaker at a meeting of the
Roxboro high school Parent
Teacher association to be held
Tuesday night at 7:30 o’clock at
the high school will be C. E. Mc-
Intosh, of Chapel Hill, according
to announcement made today by
Mrs. T. C. Wagstaff, association
publicity chairman.
Mr. Mclntosh, interested in ed
ucational topics, is regarded as
an informing speaker and Mrs.
R. H. Shelton, association presi
dent, has requested full attend
ance. The meeting will take the
place of the January meeting
postponed because of influenza.
Central Grammar school Par
ent Teacher association had its
meeting, which was also post
poned, on Tuesday afternoon,
with Dr. A. L. Allen as speaker;
and the Rev. F. B. Peele in
charge of devotional*. A message
from Mrs. Doyle D. Alley, State
P. T, A President, was read by
Mrs. J. Y. Blanks.
Views
Os The
News
Views of News—
KNOX CLAIMS ALL SIGNS
POINT TO WITHIN 60 OR
SO DAYS
Washington, Feb. I.—Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox told the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee that information from “in
side Germany” indicates that a
German attempt to invade the
British Isles may begin at any
moment.
Knox said he had heard author
itatively that German leaders are
studying weather conditions
“right now” to seize upon the
first available spell of good
weather to project their attack.
All signs point, he said, to a
very grave crisis” in the war
within “60 or 90 days.”
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HITLER’S THREAT WONT
SCARE AMERICANS, SAYS
LONDON
London, Feb. I.—The consensus
of the British press that Herr
Hitler’s “threat” to the United
States won’t scare Americans is
a factual statement which prob
ably the Nazi chief himself
wouldn’t dispute, although his
hope obviously was to weakfen
any program of all-out' aid for
the Allies.
-The comment-^
London papers, though, that the
Fuehrer’s speech seemed to be
for home consumption doesn't
seem like a particularity good
guess. On the face of it he was
talking very much for the benefit
of America and not a little to
England.
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F. D. R. HONORED, FUNDS
RAISED AT PARTIES FRIDAY
Washington, Feb. —They threw
an immense party for President
RooSevelt last night.
“They” were die tens of thou
sands throughout the nation who
celebrated the President’s 59th
birthday at parties, balls and oth
er festivities and thereby raised
money for the campaign against
infantile paralysis.
Mr. Roosevelt told them his
gratitude in a radio speech from
the White House. Their assistance
in the campaign against paralyse
he called “the rarest birthday
present of all—the gift of your
charity, your kindliness to each
other and to the nation.”
Along The Way
With the Editor
This column is getting to be a pain to write. First I talk
about one man and then I talk about another. If I could only
talk about women a little I wouldn’t have much trouble fill
ing the space every week. However I am afraid of the ladies
and so I guess I might as well keep their names frOm public
print.
Harvey Clayton of Greenville, is back in town. He was
wearing store clothes and had on fair looking shoes. It is evi -
dent that he is making a fair living and that he is making
enough to keep body and soul together. We meant to look and
see if he did not owe us $1.50 for this paper, but decided to
just wait and send him a bill.
This writer also saw Wallace Harris talking to the in
come tax man last week. That can mean only one thing and
that Is that Wallace is in the money and is planning to give a
little bit of it to Uncle Sam.
There are others around here who are going to have to
pay Uncle Sam some money or else they will have to make a
lot of figures to keep from doing it. Teague Kirby has made a
pot full of money this year and so has Karl Burger, Claude
Hall, R. B. Griffin, Emory Foushee and Gordon Hunter. These
boys might as well get ready to shell out and shell out plenty.
Someone said that Dr. A. L Allen had bought a riding
horse. That’s “enough aed”, but this writer wonders how Dr.
Alien can support a horse whan he can’t support a wife.
Long Introduces Bill To
Create Electoral Districts
HEALEY SPEAKS
ON TAXATION AT
ROTARY DINNER
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Says City o f Roxboro
Should Receive More From
State For Streets.
Declaring that the City of Rox
boro should have received $lO
- more than the $3,700 which
was received during the past year
from the State Highway funds
for maintenance cf streets, Pat
Healey, of Raleigh, executive
secretary of the North Carolina
League of Municipalities and edi
tor of Southern Cities, last night
in an address before the Roxboro
Rotary club, made stirring but
factual appeal for local endorse
ment of a $2,500,000 increase for
state maintenance of streets with
in corporate limits of towns and
cities in North Carolina.
Mr. Healey, who was introduc
ed by City Manager Percy Blox
-*m, introduce# figures to show
that 39 percent of automobile
traffic in the state is on local and
through streets in cities in the
state and that because of de
creased revenues due to changes
in taxation by the state, munici
palities are not now able to main
tain all streets or to continue re
financing of bonds previously is
sued for improvements and main
tenance.
Immediately after Mr. Healey s
address City Manager Bloxam.
who is a member of the Roxboro
Rotary club, offered a resolution
urging members of the club to
present petitions to Person legis
lators and to the Governor fav
oring an increase in “diversion"
of State Highway funds for muni
cipal street maintenance. On mo
tion of Wallace W. Woods club
action on resolution will be de
ferred until next week, pending
report of a committee appointed
by President Gordon C. Hunter.
Mr. Healey pointed out that
the increase requested will not
involve an increase in taxation.
Scout Troop .
Has Meeting
Troop 49 held its meeting Wed
nesday night at 7 o’clock. Busi
ness was taken up and "Good
Turns” given. Hill Stanfield, the
troop’s new Assistant Scoutmast
er, was then introduced to all the
scouts. Plans were made for the
next Court of Honor and for a
Troop Library, which will be
made from books donated to the
troop by the scouts and the pub- i
lie. All donations from the pub
lic will be appreciated. Other
less important things were taken
up and the meeting-was closed
by the Great Scoutmaster’s ben
ediction.
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ROXBORO BOY
TO GRADUATE
Annapolis to Observe ‘June
Week’ in February to Speed
Up-Fleet-Force*-
Annapolis, Md., Jan. 30.—1 n a
“June Week” in February, 400
Midshipmen will be graduated
from the U. S. Naval Academy
Friday, February 7—a step of the
speed-up program to provide of
ficers for the nation’s fleet.
Highlights of graduation week
are presentation of athletic and
extra-curricular awards to the
First Class Tuesday, the gradu
ation “hops” Wednesday night,
presentation of prizes and awards
and the farewell ball'Thursday.
Graduating class members in
clude: North Carolina—Charlie
Carl Garrison, Burlington; John
Walton Newsom, Durham; Rich
ard Jones Reid, Jr., Durham;
William Marshall Miller, Greens
boro; William Harrill Withrow,
Hollis; William Thomas Herring,
Rocky Mount; Marvin Britt Ruf
fin, Tarboro William Blount
Rodman, IV., Washington; Louis
Poissin Davis, Jr., Wilmington;
Edward Corbett Hines, Jr., Wil
mngton and Pride Cinclam Brown*
Jr., Winston-Salem.
Roxboro, N. C., William Mar
shall Miller of Greensboro, is
a former Roxboro resident and
only recently moved to Greens
boro with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Miller.
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Club To Meet
At Residence
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Roxboro Woman’s club, of
which Mrs. R. C. Hall is president,
will meet on Monday afternoon at
3 o’clock at the home of Mrs Xee
Umstead on Barnett avenue,
wjhere the program will be in
charge of members of the re
search dub, who will present a
program on Person County Per
sonalities.”
The program, which will be a
repeat performance of a program
given several weeks ago at the
Research club, is expected to be
unusually interesting and Mrs.
Hall has requested full attendan
ce. Another feature of the meeting
will be special music. Members
are requested to notice change of
place of meeting.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1941.
R.L. FLOWERS IS
NEW PRESIDENT
Has Served University Con
tinuously Since Year 1891.
Durham, Feb. I.—Dr. Robert L.
Flowers, a member of the faculty
and administration of Duke uni
versity continuously since 1391,
this week became president of
the university, succeeding the
late Dr. William Preston Few who
died October 16. Dr. Flowers has
been acting president of the un
iversity since his predecessor's
death.
His election to the presidency
was made by the university board
of trustees, in regular mid-winter
session, on nomination by the ex
ecutive committee of the univer
sity. Dr. Flowers’ elevation cre
ating a vice-presidency vacancy,
the trustees elected Henry R.
Dwire, Duke director of public
relations and alumni affairs, a
vice-president of the university.
Dean William H. Wannamaker
has for some years been vice
president, in the education . . di
vision. Dr. Flowers was vice
president in the business division.
Secretary Since 1910
The new Duke president has
served as secretary of Duke uni
versity since the inauguration of
President Few in 1910 and has
been treasurer since 1923. Until
1934, in addition to his admini
strative duties, he taught mathe
matics. For many years he has
been a great favorite with Duke
students and alumni who affec
tionately know him as “Professor
Bobby” Flowers.
At the end of the present aca
demic year Dr. Flowers will have
completed fifty years in the ser
vice of Trinity college and Duke
university. During this half-cen
tury as teacher and administra
tor he has seen the small college,
to which he went in 1891 as in
structor in electrical engineering
grow to one of the South’s and
the nation’s foremost universi
ties.
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Schools To Show
Benefit Picture
Benefit showings of “Songs and
Saddles” western motion pic
ture, will be given this week at
Olive Hill and Hurdle Mills
schools. The showing at Olive
Hill, under auspices of the Parent
Teacher association, will be given
Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’-
clock in the school auditorium,
and at Hurdle Mills on Thursday
at the same hour, a benefit
for the janitor’s house.
The Olive Hill sponsors will sell
home made candy and both spon
sors are anxious to have large at
tendance.
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LATEST RUNAWAY
Latest runaway of the mechan
ical variety is an automobile, prop
erty of a man named Adcock,
which yesterday morning ran
down a hill near Longhurst mill
and turned bottom-side up, near
a bridge. The car was unoccupied!
and was not greatly damaged; it
apparently got in motion when
brakes failed to hold.
THE TIMES IS PERSON’S
PREMIER NEWSPAPER
A LEADER AT ALL TIMES.
NUMBER THIRTEEN
Three Electoral
Districts For Coun
ty Commissioners
Would Be Created
Under Act
Under heading of local legisla
tion Person Senator Fletn D.
Long introduced Friday in the
Senate a bill providing for crea
tion of three Person electoral dis
tricts for county commissioners,
the measure if adopted, to be
effective at the next election two
years hence.
Under terms of the bill, which
has approval of Person’s Repre
sentative R. P. Bums, district one
will be composed of the four Rox
boro townships; district two will
be composed of Bushy Fork,
Olive Hill, Cunningham and
Woodsdale, and district three, of
Holloway, AUensville, Mt. Tirzah
and Flat River.
It is also understood that num
ber of candidates from each dis
trict will be unlimited hut that..
high man in each district will be
declared to be the elected com
missioner. In previous elections
Person County commissioners
have been chosen at large but
under the proposed changes each
general area of the county wilt
be assured of representation.
Readers of the Times will re
call that the 1940 commissioners
race was unusually close and that
there was for some time consid
erable doubt as to the winner in
one of the contests between d
city and a county representative,
Representative Bums, discuss
ing two local bills introduced by
him in the House last week said
that the first, (HB 76) relative
to dates for the January term of
Superior court, is designed to
move that court term one week
backward in order to avoid con
flict with a court week in Dur
ham county, and that the second,
(HB 16) fixing and defining the
“Terms of the Agricultural Ten
ancy Year” from December 16 to
next December 15, is designed to
establish a definite date schedule
and to eliminate practice among
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ONE VETERAN ON
TEAM SELECTED
C. B. Davis, Jr. Only Veter
an on Bundle Mills Debat
ing Team.
Selection of Jimmie Dimmick
and Miss Valinda Moore as affir
mative representatives, and of C.
B. Davis, Jr., and Miss Irene Mc-
Culloch, as negative representa
tives on triangular debating teams
from Hurdle Mills was announced
yesterday by Miss Rachel Bright,
debating coach.
The Hurdle Mills negative, team
will on March 28, at 7:30 o'clock
meet Bethel Hill at Bethel Hill,
while the affirmative pair wQi
meet Altaxnahaw-Oacipee's team
' on the same date and at the samo
! hour at Hurdle Mills.
| Final try-outs -were held Tues
day under direction at Miss
I Bright Only veteran on the team
I is W. Davis, wfco repatMMdl'hirf